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Sorry the dislike button probably isn't coming back. You can close the sidebar using the little cross (somewhere top right) then all of the space will be dedicated to the fora.

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Ooh, lots of great changes here - I like the new subforums, and the ability to organize threads by things other than recently updated. However, is it possible to add back the little button by the thread title which brings you straight to the posts you haven't read yet? That was a useful feature.

Use the blue(?) dot/circle next to (left of) the topic title.

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Oh, also, where are the emoticons? I don't see them.

The last thing - avatars look a bit "squeezed" - don't know how to put it correctly, but you know what I mean. Could you fix that?

Emoticons should be there. You may have to re-crop your avatar to make it look right.

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Hmmm... I'm intrigued by this new software. Not sure how I feel about it...

Same here. But I like to live on the edge

Questions:

- We can only vote posts up and not down?

- What's with the symbol that appears with the tab in Firefox? Can you change that? It reminds me of Transformers for some reason...

You can "like" and dislike (but only if you have previously liked). I've fixed the favicon. Any other requests/comments?

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Still work in progress ... but I don't see any harm in turning it back on whilst I do some tweaks.

[Taking forum offline later today]

Hi All,

I'll be upgrading the forum s/w later today. The forum will be offline for a while. You have been warned!!

[Forum Stats for Jun '11]

Top 10 Posters

1. Strangefox 132
   
2. newms 95
   
3. Eigen 81
   
4. ZeeMore21 74
   
5. hejduk 72
   
6. runonsentence 57
   
7. Bison 49
   
8. kroms 43
   
9. StrangeLight 41
   
10. Mal83 41
    
11. GardeningGrad 40
    
12. Two Espressos 39
    

Congrats Strangefox! (I don't know why I find your username so amusing, but I do )

By the numbers

In total there were 3,660 posts made this month (1,519 in June 2010). There were 148,783 visits, 82,764 Unique Visitors and 589,388 Pageviews to the forum. Welcome to sleepy town.

[Forum Stats for May' 11]

I thought I was out of the race

You are a strange fox...

[Forum Stats for May' 11]

Top 10 Posters

1. newms 81
   
2. neuropsych76 64
   
3. runonsentence 64
   
4. Strangefox 57
   
5. Mal83 54
   
6. far_to_go 50
   
7. Eigen 50
   
8. mechengr2000 43
   
9. spctle342 43
   
10. ZeeMore21 40
    

Congrats newms! (wait... haven't we been here before?)

By the numbers

In total there were 5,582 posts made this month (3,233 in May 2010). There were 220,352 visits, 98,549 Unique Visitors and 904,231 Pageviews to the forum.

[Forum Stats for Apr' 11]

Congrats all! I actually feel a little sad about falling out of the top ten ;P

Only one way to fix that.

[Forum Stats for Apr' 11]

Top 10 Posters

1. kroms 155
   
2. jendoly 143
   
3. newms 118
   
4. psyentist4good 114
   
5. Bukharan 100
   
6. Eigen 89
   
7. farnsworth 88
   
8. IRdreams 84
   
9. crimsonengineer87 83
   
10. Mal83 77
    

Congrats kroms! 3rd to 1st place.

By the numbers

In total there were 15,040 posts made this month (9,138 in April 2010). There were 444,438 visits, 141,774 Unique Visitors and 2,271,802 Pageviews to the forum.

[ECE TAMU funding decision]

Already asked in freak-out.

[Traffic on the GradCafe post-4/15?]

I tried to watch the graphs and all I could read is: "You do not have permission to view this attachment."

Fixed

[Traffic on the GradCafe post-4/15?]

Just so you all know I am watching this topic closely. As for the previously promised graph of how the forum usage looks, here's the past 4 admit seasons.

The graph starts at 10/1/2007 and ends yesterday, 4/21/2011. Healthy growth: in the week of Oct 1 2007 we had 107 visitors. Last week we had 115,107 visitors.

Here's the same thing with page views instead of visitors. From a mere 240k pageviews in Feb/Mar 2007 to almost 1M this time around.

[Forum Stats for Mar' 11]

That's a good question.

[Traffic on the GradCafe post-4/15?]

It's a sad picture, you don't want to see it. I'll make a plot later and attach it.

That said, as the forum gets more and more users, I'm hoping some of you guys will stick around after getting in (as time permits) and eventually there'll be a critical mass of users.

[eReaders]

Yeah, GradCafe doesn't work for me either on my iPad (but it's the only forum that behaves as such for me)

If you disable rich text editing in your user preferences on this site then you'll be to post. This is a known issue which I hope they will fix in the next release.

[Forum Stats for Mar' 11]

Ha, I was sure that I would not be on the list

And yet you were!

[Forum Stats for Mar' 11]

Top 10 Posters

1. bhikhaari 324
   
2. newms 166
   
3. kroms 165
   
4. Bukharan 164
   
5. Eigen 145
   
6. lyonessrampant 141
   
7. Amalia222 137
   
8. wtncffts 129
   
9. Strangefox 127
   
10. chaospaladin 119
    

Congrats bhikhaari! (Next month congrats newms? )

By the numbers

In total there were 27,538 posts made this month (20,021 in March 2010). There were 658,942 visits, 179,111 Unique Visitors and 3,904,239 Pageviews to the forum.

[Forum Stats for Feb' 11]

I saw that too. I guess the question is, is it the people on that list or the people off it that have a problem? It probably just snowballed after the first negative rating.

Too bad people don't realise that the site closes down when my rating falls to 0 :-)

[OMG it's March!!!]

Ha. Too much free time :-)

[calculation of distance using Kullback–Leibler divergence]

Hmm. I'm not 100% sure this is on topic, but anyway.

Are your points always going to be discrete like this, or are these samples from some continuous functions? In the latter case any norm between the functions will work.

If you have a finite set of points and the first point from sample one (X_1,Y_1) is always to be compared with the first point from sample two (A_1,B_1), etc. why not just do a sum of squares \sum_{i=1}^n (X_i-A_i)^2 + (Y_i-B_i)^2

I don't think using a KL divergence is the right approach.

[Forum Stats for Feb' 11]

EDIT: By the way, is it possible to see one's own month-by-month stats somewhere? Just curious.

Unfortunately not. I have to run a special query against the database to get the info.

[Forum Stats for Feb' 11]

Top 10 Posters

1. newms 542
   
2. bhikhaari 437
   
3. Bukharan 261
   
4. qbtacoma 209
   
5. lyonessrampant 175
   
6. wtncffts 170
   
7. Strangefox 160
   
8. UFGator 145
   
9. persiandoc 144
   
10. Eigen 144
    

Congrats newms AGAIN! But holy cow, over 500 posts? I had to double check my post counting script! Bhikhaari over 400? You guys, February only has 28 days. That's at least 15 posts a day from each of you. Ok.. shock over. I think that record will stand for a long time.

By the numbers

In total there were 25,344 posts made this month (19,339 in February 2010). There were 521,225 visits, 136,264 Unique Visitors and 3,449,294 Pageviews to the forum.

[How anonymous is thegradcafe?]

Hello all,

I am debating revealing personal info (no name or location) such as details of my applications and circumstances surrounding them that might identify me to admissions personel or department faculty...Do they go on thegradcafe? or am I being paranoid? Information I want to reveal is to get some perspectives on my applications, but its personal in nature. THoughts?

I'm not sure what you mean by "How anonymous is thegradcafe". The only people who can see your email address are the administrators. Beyond that your anonymity is determined by how much information you post. If you don't want anyone to be able to deduce your real identity don't post at all. Otherwise there's always a small chance someone can recognize you, be it by your list of schools, research interest, or even your writing style and choice of words.

Keep in mind whatever you post, it's here to stay! We don't remove posts.

Have fun.